# seme
## English
### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsiːm/
** Audio:(file)
* Homophones: seam, seem
* Rhymes: -iːm

#### Noun

seme (plural semes or semata)
* (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.

##### Related terms

* semantics
* semiotics
* sememe
* sememics

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

seme (third-person singular simple present semes, present participle seming, simple past and past participle semed)
* Obsolete form of seem.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

seme (plural semes)
* Obsolete form of seam.

### Etymology 4
#### Adjective

seme
* Obsolete form of semé.
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 46, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 150:I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.

### Etymology 5

Borrowed from Japanese 攻め (seme), derived from the verb 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).

#### Noun

seme (plural semes or seme)
* (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
** 2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre‎, McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, page 73:[…] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]
** 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek‎, volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN:Sebas has always been the seme.
** 2011, Robin E. Brenner, Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World‎, Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, page 97:The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.

##### Antonyms

* uke

### Anagrams

* Mees, Esmé, Esme, smee, seem, mese, Smee, emes

## Asturian
### Verb

seme
* first-person singular present subjunctive of semar
* third-person singular present subjunctive of semar

## Basque
### Etymology

From Proto-Basque *senbe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /s̺eme/ [s̺e.me]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eme, -e
* Hyphenation: se‧me

### Noun

seme anim
* son

#### Derived terms

* seme besoetako (“godson”)
* seme galdu
* seme gehien
* seme nagusi
* seme ponteko (“godson”)
* seme premu
* seme zaharren
* seme-alaba (“children”)
* seme-alabaorde
* seme-alabatasun
* seme-alabatzako
* semebitxi (“godson”)
* semeizun (“stepson”)
* semeorde (“stepson”)
* semetasun
* semetxo
* semetzako
* semezko

### Further reading

* “seme”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
* “seme”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin sēmen.

### Noun

seme m (plural semes)
* semen
    Synonyms: esperma, inzo

## Hadza
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seme/

### Verb

seme
* (intransitive) to eat

### Noun

seme m
* food

#### Related terms

* same

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin sēmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈse.me/
* Rhymes: -eme
* Hyphenation: sé‧me
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

seme m (plural semi)
* (botany) seed, pip
* (botany, in some cases) bean
* (anatomy, colloquial) semen
    Synonym: sperma
* (card games) suit

#### Related terms

* semaio
* sementa
* semente
* semenza
* semina
* seminare

### Further reading

* seme on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{it}$

### Anagrams

* mese

## Japanese
### Romanization

seme
* Rōmaji transcription of せめ

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse sœmr, from Proto-Germanic *sōmiz.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseːm(ə)/

#### Adjective

seme
* Seemly, appropriate, honourable.
* (rare) Attractive, beautiful.

##### References

* “sẹ̄me, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

seme
* Alternative form of seem (“seam”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

seme
* Alternative form of seem (“load”)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

seme
* Alternative form of semen (“to sort out”)

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

seme
* Alternative form of semen (“to seem”)

### Etymology 6
#### Verb

seme
* Alternative form of semen (“to load up”)

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseː.me/

### Verb

sēme
* inflection of sēman:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* sjȅme (Ijekavian)
* śeme (Montenegro)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sḗˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sême/
* Hyphenation: se‧me

### Noun

sȅme n (Cyrillic spelling се̏ме)
* seed
* germ
* semen
* spawn
* milt
* offspring
* prime cause

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sḗˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sèːmɛ/

### Noun

sẹ́me n
* seed

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “seme”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “seme”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseme/ [ˈse.me]
* Rhymes: -eme
* Syllabification: se‧me

### Verb

seme
* inflection of ser:
** second-person singular imperative combined with me
** second-person singular voseo imperative combined with me

## Venetan
### Adjective

seme
* feminine plural of semo